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May 6, 2022[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
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Reconcilable Differences: Portraits of Challenging U.S. Partnerships [[link removed]]
[[link removed]]Out now: From China to Egypt to Pakistan and beyond, the Spring 2022 Wilson Quarterly examines tricky U.S. partnerships in an increasingly complex world.
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Political Parties in MENA: Ten Years Post-Arab Uprisings Nordic Security Perspectives in the Arctic
The uprisings of 2011 and 2018 shook the Middle East but failed to bring about permanent change. In this event, the Middle East Program's Protest and Mass Movements Initiative maps out the political parties across the Arab region and highlights how they have evolved, devolved, or folded since the onset of the "Arab Spring." “As relations between NATO and Russia have deteriorated, the strategic importance of the Arctic and the North Atlantic has been underscored. The Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, Fulbright Arctic Initiative, and Fridtjof Nansen Institute discuss common concerns and challenges—focusing on how Norway and the Kingdom of Denmark perceive and approach security in the Arctic.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Russia’s Nuclear Threats Recast Cold War Dangers: The “Delicate Balance of Terror” Revisited
As the United States convened a meeting of 40 nations in late April to coordinate their military aid to Ukraine, Russia responded with renewed nuclear saber-rattling. Robert S. Litwak explores how a confluence of circumstances threatens to recast and elevate two traditional dangers of the bipolar Cold War era.
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By Merely Entertaining NATO Membership, Sweden Has Changed Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel: The Prospects for Détente in the Middle East
Highly proud of its track record in pursuing its foreign policy goals by avoiding war for over a century, questions of Sweden’s formal alliances have always been hotly debated and divisive. By publicly acknowledging their changed calculations considering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Nima Khorrami of the Arctic Institute, makes the case that the country is forever changed. The latest step in the reshaping of the Middle East political order took place last week with the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Saudi Arabia after years of extremely strained relations between the two countries. David Ottaway provides insights on “a slightly surreal spring of détente across the Middle East.”
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NOW Logo [[link removed]]Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Roundtable
“Uganda hosts about 45 % of [South Sudanese] refugees, and a large percentage of refugees in Uganda are women who are engaged in peace building... and interested in influencing peace in their country of South Sudan.” Sandra Tumwesigye, one of three scholars from the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding who joined in conversation with John Milewski in the latest NOW.
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Upcoming Events
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Victory Day Celebrations During Russia’s War of Aggression [[link removed]]Monday, May 9 // 1–2:30 p.m. (ET)
Kennan Long View Series | There is Nothing for You Here [[link removed]]Tuesday, May 10 // 1–2:00 p.m. (ET)
Lifting the Fog of War in Ukraine: A Discussion with Jamie Fly and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [[link removed]]Tuesday, May 10 // 3­­–4:30 p.m. (ET)
Africa’s Policy Priorities for Food Security and Nutrition [[link removed]]Wednesday, May 11 // 9–11:00 a.m. (ET)
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Wilson In the News
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House Speaker Pelosi Travel to Kyiv Promising More American Help for the Ukrainian People (MSNBC) [[link removed]]
“The bottom line is that we, the free-minded world, is pushing back against an egregious aggression, that continues, that’s turned into an almost World War II rumbling, both of cities and atrocities against civilians.” —Retired Brigadier General Peter Zwack
LATAM Update: Russian Influence/Migration (Voice of America) [[link removed]]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected all regions of the world, including Latin America. Benjamin Gedan, talks about the impact of the invasion and the politics of lifting of two controversial U.S. border policies which affect migration at the southern border.
Ukraine Is Now America’s War, Too (The New Yorker) [[link removed]]
Robin Wright makes the case that the U.S. is leading a new coalition of “nations of good will” as the goal expands from supporting Ukraine to weakening Russia and outlasting Putin.
The UN Must Do More for Ukraine—and Itself (Defense One) [[link removed]]
Ambassador James Jeffrey argues that Russia’s invasion of a sovereign state is also an attack on the basic principle the international body was founded to prevent.


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